Askold Grave Church

The Church of St. Nicholas is a Neoclassical style rotunda in the Askold's Grave park of Kyiv, Ukraine.

"Church of St. Nicholas (Askold's Grave)" redirects here. For the 20th-century cathedral, see Bryansk Church of Saint Nicholas in Dnipro. For the cathedral, see Saint Nicholas Church, Dnipro.

This former Russian Orthodox church was designed in 1809 by the Moscow-born architect Andrey Melensky and was underwritten by Samuil Meshcheryakov, a merchant from Voronezh.

The general contractor for the project was Vasiliy Serikov. The construction cost 8,000 rubles and the church was consecrated on 1 September 1810.

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